Absconding in solitude to a Southern Colorado cave for the past two weeks, I pondered the universe, those delicious Totino’s pizza rolls, and of course, the next great buy for your fantasy football team. Entranced in the depths of transcendental meditation that would make The Buddha blush, two syllables appeared in the ether over and over. Tre – Quan, Tre – Quan, Tre – Quan. The universe has spoken and Tre’Quan Smith must be acquired at once. The third round rookie out of Central Florida is a WR4 for now, but top 20 WR numbers for the rest of this season are well within the realm of possibilities with Ted Ginn out for the year. Anyway, here’s some more players to buy or sell this week in fantasy football:

Buy

Stefon Diggs – Adam Thielen is stealing the show in Minnesota, but don’t forget about the more talented Viking’s receiver. Stefon has been Diggsing my fantasy team a hole the past two weeks, but on the plus side, we’re getting a great buying opportunity on his WR1 potential rest of season.

Rob Gronkowski – Gronk stayed behind in New England this past weekend to be with his 1,200 girlfriends but the big man should be back this week. If his owner is desperate for a win and you’re sitting pretty, see if you can land Bobby Whiskers for your championship run.

Doug Martin – Does Dog Martin have anything left in the tank? I’m not sure, but with Marshawn Lynch hitting the IR, I expect Gruden to give DMart every opportunity to take the lead back job in Oakland.

Jalen Richard – Little Richard is the Raider running back to own in PPR leagues. That said, both Richard and Martin should be added in all formats.

Raheem Mostert – Mostert is the beneficiary of Matt Brieda being one of the most-hurt running backs in the league. Seriously, is there any part of Brieda’s body that hasn’t been injured already this season? Mostert is averaging over 6 YPC and he’s easily better than Alf Morris at this stage in his career.

Christian Kirk – The Cardinals offense looks hopeless, but nothing is ever as bad as it seems. OC Mike McCoy has been fired and Kirk has already shown a decent floor in recent weeks. There’s huge upside here if the Arizona offense improves. From previous weeks I’m still buying David Johnson, Ronald Jones and Rashaad Penny.

Sell

Amari Cooper – Wide receivers changing teams mid-season don’t have a great track record. Is there an optimistic Cowboys fan in your league?

Julian Edelman – He’s a risky WR2 moving forward considering his injury history and Gronk returning this week. If you can get fair value in return, make the deal, but I’d want at least a couple Totino’s pizza rolls. Just make sure you nibble the corner of the pizza roll first for cooling purposes to avoid the nuclear explosion in your mouth.

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@DLNG: 10% sounds good to me, I think 15% would be fine if you really want him. Really tough to say on the #1 priority since who might be available in the future is so league dependent…you know your league better than I do.

I’d see if I could get a WR2 like John Brown, Kenny Golladay, Tyler Boyd type range for him. Maybe George Kittle, Eric Ebron, Jared Cook if you need a TE.

Hey man ! .5 ppr league I wanna add Tre’quan Smith off waivers however I’m in a pickle since I have Melvin Gordon & Kupp in my IR slots but in order to add a player I need to activate both Gordon & kupp as they are both listed questionable currently.

I was thinking activating Gordon by dropping my second 2. Then activate kupp by dropping Hogan

— now that is squared away I was thinking dropping Geronimo Allison to add treQuan Smith

When Buying Gifts Don't Confuse the Diary of Hans Frank and Anne Franksays:
October 23, 2018 at 8:16 pm (link)

@Donkey Teeth: where would ris matt (signed with NYJ today) line up in this WR list, i’m thinking at least in between roberts/williams, if not higher. my 12 waiver MIGHT be good enough for sharpe (probably not though)

When Buying Gifts Don't Confuse the Diary of Hans Frank and Anne Franksays:
October 24, 2018 at 3:17 am (link)

other than dropping ratley for a QB backup for week 9:
1. drop barber or royce for any of RJ2, ivory (this seems like short term value i don’t need though), barner (similar to ivory, but probably more shortish term value)
2. drop cobb for t.smith (smith comes off WW a day later than all the others though, so unless i were to attempt no player adds tonight this seems unlikely)
this league weekly reset to standings waiver so i never have a good one (i’m not best team either, but for some reason this year in a LOT of leagues i’m say 3rd-4th (for 12’ers) best team with a better record than i deserve, 12th (in a 20), and some other crazy good luck thus far). this league i’m 6th best team with tied for 3rd best record.

@Joey Jo Jo Jr Shabadoo: also, even if i were to NOT use any waivers tonight to try to help myself get t.smith here that’s no guarantee, not everybody uses theirs (most do though, i usually use it 3 or 4 times a week, including D streamer, but this week i already have ARI (only PIT ranked higher that’s a FA))

i could just waiver nobody tonight, then move up to probably at least 4th overall WW and try for t.smith (NO) tomorrow (and beat it hard if dak is gone). this is not my standard procedure in leagues like this but here it might make sense.

@jason batteiger: or fitz, rudy’s bots hate sanu/cobb now, of course it also has meredith ahead of t.smith (it must be slow to adjust to more recent snap counts, and anyway clearly smith’s got the upside vote).

Howdy donkey! Did I screw up? Last week I added Doug Martin as a speculative add should I have added Jalen Richard instead? .5 ppr and Martin is the last RB on my bench I figured it was low risk & thought gruden likes going to the veterans; and likes Martin?

i see the this week ranking of grant (IND) vs roberts (OAK) but ROS PPR for super deep league grant still ahead? have cobb/grant/sharpe/r.anderson/hopkins (start 3 WR, 1 flex).

also, best super flex dynasty stash:
c.kelly (the fact that he wasn’t released yet is telling), mccarron (carr and everybody “running” the offense at OAK (grudening in full effect) hated by rest of team openly now), chainsaw kessler (probably a few game minutes from that job yet again).

@Donkey Teeth: yeah it’s like that tv funhouse sketch of the mid 90’s when anne heche/downey jr/and somebody else all in the span of a few months got f’d up and stumbled into somebody’s house (not together). see if i can find it. margot kidder was the other.